relation

/ɹɪˈleɪʃən/ · noun

Meaning

The manner in which two things may be associated.
A member of one's family.
The act of relating a story.
A set of ordered tuples.
Specifically, a set of ordered pairs.
A set of ordered tuples retrievable by a relational database; a table.

Etymology / origin

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Related words

congress(English)relative(English)recounting(English)telling(English)sexual relation(English)sex act(English)copulation(English)intercourse(English)transitive(English)equivalence(English)symmetric(English)formula(English)

Descendant words

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Sources

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